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From Copenhagen to a solution : Desde Copenhague hacia una solución...

From Copenhagen to a solution, “swarming” might save the planet!
New video being launched in London which explains why Copenhagen hadn’t got a chance of presenting a real solution because it touches the infinite growth model of a transnational power base, being anti-consumerism etc.  The film then takes a leap into the past presenting what really [...]

South of the Border, Upside Down World Review

Manufacturing Consent Latin America-Style, Click for article reviewing the reviews

South of the Border Posters; Hernan Reig. Click for my review of the film

Quien Dijo Miedo, Katia Lara

Katia Lara lanzando su documental en Buenos Aires

La hondureña y directora de la nueva película documental “Quien Dijo Miedo”, Katia Lara, lanzó su documental en Buenos Aires. Fuimos  a comer después del estreno y se ve que su documental es un trabajo de amor por su pueblo y su resistencia al poder golpista. Se [...]

1810 stirrings of independence, 1910 the Belle Époque, 2010 the A.B.C.D. of poverty

Plastic waiting chairs await me in the spacious immigration offices built for streams of millions of European poor from Italy, Spain and other nations at war. The huddled masses arrived flea-bitten and seasick in their millions in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. These fine buildings are reminiscent of the best [...]

Frente a la tragedia griega: Repensando una propuesta global para un problema global

Escrito por Oscar Ugarteche y Alberto Acosta

ALAI AMLATINA, 11/05/2010.- A lo largo de la historia financiera internacional se puede observar que los países deudores repetidamente toman créditos, tienen un auge, declinan, cesan los pagos y la vida continúa.

Walden Bello: The roles of China & The US in Climate Change

“While the corporations continue to believe in the strength of global supply chains.
Like any chain these are only a strong as their weakest link.”;
Walden Bello (Minute 21 of this video)

Negotiation or Dictate

Editorial:
The Guardian newspaper in the UK received an email with a file found on the computer of a “European” hotel, which you can read below.

Yes we know the British don’t really live in Europe, rather Europe lives off the British coastline, but wait I digress. Back to the negotiations in Copenhagen and now in Bonn…

Are [...]

Why is Bolivia not playing ball?

Pablo_Solon_in_Vancouver

Part one of three
Part two of three
Part three of three

A short sequence of three videos of a speech given in English by Pablo Solon in Vancouver Canada in the run-up to the Conference in Cochabamba Bolivia where I shall be next week.

Editor's submission to Evo's conference

The Structural Causes of Climate Change

What follows is a discussion of structural problems in the relationship between national economies and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). The emphasis is on the role of transnational capital itself, independent of national political economics.

It is argued that in order to prevent further environmental degradation, pollution and climate change, the [...]